Storm River Mouth, South Africa

 2021-03-15 : Storm River Mouth. Amazing suspension bridge over a beautiful river in a gorgeous landscape..

Plettenberg Bay, South Africa

 2021-03-12 : Plettenberg Bay and the Robberg Reserve. Thousands of Cape Fur Seals on the rocks of the peninsula.

The Route 62 in "Klein Karoo", South Africa

 2021-03-08 / 10 : Route 62 and Klein Karoo. One of the most scenic route in South Africa !

Cape Agulhas, South Africa.

 2021-03-06 : Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Africa. At the East, the Indian Ocean, At the West, the Atlantic Ocean.

Franschhoek, South Africa

 2021-03-05 : Franschhoek, le Coind des Francais. 300 Huguenots fleeing repression in France were brought here by the Dutch at the end of the 17th century to colonize the Cape hinterland. They have developed a wine-making activity there that has endured for generations. There is a very French flair there.

Stellenbosch, South Africa

 2021-03-02/03 : Stellenbosch. The sedond established town in South Africa. A young and lively city thanks to its university and its world-renowned wines.

Boulders Beach, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

 2021-03-01 : Boulders Beach and one of only two colonies of African penguins on the continent. Amazing !

Cape of Good Hope, South AFrica

 2021-02-28 : Cape of Good Hope. It is not necessary to present this mythical cape !

Capetown, South Africa

 2021-02-23 / 27 : Capetown : Bo-Kaap, Waterfront, Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch

Paternoster, South Africa

 2021-02-20/21 : Paternoster. Seeing again the Atlantic Ocean after 15 months of separation (from Lobito in Angola). Two days in the rocks a few meters from the waves crashing on the granite. We could almost believe we are in Brittany but periwinkles still lack a little too much !! The waters of the Atlantic are cool, the wind too. Even in the heart of the southern summer.

Wolfberg Cracks, Cederberg, South Africa

 2021-02-16 : The Wolfberg Cracks. Another hard hike to another extraordinary natural site: a narrow fault 500 m in length to climb to a plateau at an altitude of 1400 m, an Indiana Jones-style setting!

Maltese Cross, Cederberg, South Africa

 2021-02-15 : The Maltese Cross in the Cederberg Mountain. A beautiful hike to an extraordinary natural sites: a 20-meter-high Maltese cross-shaped rock that has resisted the destructive forces of erosion for millions of years while all the neighboring rocks have succumbed.

Rock Art Trail, Cederberg, South Africa

 2021-02-14 : Sevilla Rock Art Trail, a 5 km trail (round trip) which takes us to 9 cave painting sites of the San (the oldest people in South Africa). These paintings are estimated to be between 500 and 5,000 years old.

Fraserburg, Great Karoo, South Africa

 2021-02-10/11 : 250 million years old animal footprints and fossils hunting in the Great Karoo desert.

Great Karoo National Park, South Africa

 2021-02-08 : The amazing Klipspringerpass road.

Graaff-Reinet, Great Karoo, South Africa

 2021-02-05 : The extraordinary dorolite columns of the Valley of Desolation.

Nieu Bethesda, Great Karoo, South Africa

 2021-02-05 : Nieu Bethesda and Helen Martin's extraordinary garden.

Cradock and Mountain Zebra National Park, Great Karoo, South Africa

2021-02-01/02 : Market Street in Cradock with the flair of the 19th century. 700 mountain zebras live in the park, one third of the world's population.

Bloemfontein, South-Africa

 2021-01-30 : Gandalf in the hometown of J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)

Maropeng, South Africa

 2021-01-20/21 : The Cradle of Humankind. Africa, where we are coming from.

Pilanesberg Nature Reserve, South Africa

 2021-01-15/21 : An exceptional nature reserve on a very, very old volcano that has been extinct for over a billion years.

Even in 2 full days in the reserve we did not discover all the nooks and crannies but we encountered a large number of animals including a lions pride (2 males, 2 females and one baby In an exceptional natural setting. 

 

Marakele National Park, Waterberg, South Africa

 2021-01-13/14 : A park and its animals for us all alone.